Sunday, February 18, 2018

Rise of the nationalists

Although
this phenomenon in recent years has seen the rise in the United States but it
was not always that way. People from a country feel proud about it and some of it
to the extent that they feel superior to other countries and abhor immigrants
whom they feel are superior and supposedly don’t take jobs which they think are
beneath their level but when the immigrants want to take that job, the
nationals become agitated. But this is not an American phenomenon as most of the
media would make you believe, but it happens all over the world and lately it
has been showing in places not known for it previously. I am not against
showing patriotic fervor when it is needed and people should be proud of where
they come from and should always show it but the dangers becomes exponential
when this type of patriotic tendencies descent into hatred of anything which is
not of the native land.

I will
give you some examples. You already know how nationalist (or simply white
supremacists) are trying to set their agenda on the U.S. public but they are
not the only ones as the white population in Britain and Poland and Hungry try
to do the same in Europe. And not to mention in Asia, Japan has been
notoriously nationalists as they have looked down upon their Korean-Japanese
population for a long time and despite their shrinking population have refused
to simply open the gates to immigration from less “pure blood” ( you know what
I mean) countries. Chinese do the same as they are suspicious of anything that
is not Chinese and so do the Russians. But if the supposedly Islamic countries
where Islam specifically forbade discriminating based on race, the racist
tendencies of Islamic nationalist states are simply overlooked by the natives
in direct opposition to the nationalists’ tendencies being shown in European
countries due to the illegal immigrants streaming to the European shores by
mostly non White population.

And you
would think that being an African would mean one continent as it is presumed
that it is where all the dark skinned people live but even there discrimination
is pervasive as the Libyans not want to be associated with Somalis and north
African countries feel superior to the less wealthy Africans even if they
themselves are discriminated in other places. But due to the Syrian Civil war
and to a lesser extent the poverty and war ravaging some African countries, the
immigrants mostly illegally trekking to European countries have given rise to
nationalists feeling even in place where none of evident like in Italy and
Greece, home to one of the largest concentration of illegal entrants from
African and Asia. And with the rise of illegal immigrants, the rise of
nationalists in the host countries was bound to happen and it will continue to
remain in the elevated state.